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President Trump says the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is on "massive life support."

He's rejecting Tehran's counter-proposal to the U.S.'s plan for ending hostilities, and

PR's Abitrawi has a latest. The details of the latest U.S. proposal for ending the war haven't been made public, but Trump has repeatedly said he wants Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment and open the state of her moods to commercial shipping. Iran's control of that vital waterways since the start of the war has given it leverage

it didn't have in previous negotiations with the U.S.

Iranian President, Ms. Od. Bezaskin, said that Iran will never bow its head before the enemy.

Iran says any deal with the U.S. should include steps by both sides, including the U.S. lifting sanctions and unfreezing Iranian assets. And while the ceasefire is still holding, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran each report intercepting drones over their territory, A. Abitrawi and Pyrenees, Dubai. More than 20 countries are receiving or treating passengers from a cruise ship with a

head of virus outbreak.

They include 18 in the U.S. when American is tested positive, Admiral Brian Christine,

Assistant Secretary of Health sought to reassure the public today. Let me be crystal clear. The risk of hunt of virus to the general public remains very, very low. The U.S. Supreme Court is planning to discuss this week how it will handle a set of cases that could severely weaken enforcement of the Federal Voting Rights Act.

And Pyrenees Hansi Lohong reports a court's conference comes after a recent ruling that has limited the landmark laws protections against racial discrimination in redistricting. For decades, legal protections were racial minority voters under what's known as Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act have been mainly enforced through lawsuits by voters and advocacy groups.

Public officials in North Dakota, Mississippi, and Alabama have made a novel argument that only the Justice Department can sue. The Supreme Court has said to discuss this Thursday how will handle three redishing cases

that question whether private individuals and groups can keep suing under Section 2?

Last month, the court made it harder to use that part of the Voting Rights Act to claim that maps of certain voting districts discriminate against minority voters of color. The three redistricting cases now in the court's conference schedule could end up further weakening the landmark law from the Civil Rights Movement on Zila Wong and Pyrenees. The widow of a man killed in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year suing

Chad G. B. T. Maker, open AI as well as a shooter for the family of T. R. Chabba, ledges. The company's AI Chabba gave advice on how to carry out the attack. Bakari Sellers is one of the attorneys representing the family and spoke to reporters in Tallahassee today. Chad G. B. T. has decided they wanted to place revenue streams.

They decided they wanted to place income. They decided they wanted to place the dollar above the lives of everyday average Americans. Open AI Denize Rung doing adding Chad G. B. T. did not promote illegal or harmful activity. It's NPR news. The price of existing homes have gone up in the past month and Pierce got horsely with

the latest sales of existing homes rose only slightly in April. The National Association of Realtors says sales were up to tens of one percent from March and flat compared to April of last year. The average selling price was up less than 1% from a year ago and just under $418,000.

First time buyers accounted for a third of the home sold last month, mortgage giant Freddie

Max is the average interest rate, amount of 30 year home loan is now 6.37%. That's got horsely reporting. The fourth National Baseball Poetry Festival took over a ballpark in Massachusetts over the weekend. WBWR's Andrea Shey has a latest.

Hoards of all ages from across the country traveled to Polar Park, Wisters Minor League Stadium to celebrate America's national past-time through verse. National Baseball Poetry Festival founder Steve Beyond Delilo acknowledges how niche the literary genre might seem to some. It's a giant hidden tribe, right?

There are poets everywhere and then baseball just becomes a great subject matter. One of the most famous baseball poems also has Worcester Roots. Home Town poet Ernest Thayer wrote Casey at the bat there in 1888. For NPR News, I'm Andrea Shey. You as docks are trading, slightly higher this hour with a Nasdaq up six S&P also up as much.

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